Cuban Quotes

Cuban Quote of the day

You know, what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars...

The roots of Cuban music are in my head.

Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.

Ry Cooder for me is a master, a great master that has a wonderful feel for Cuban music. He's also paid tribute my talent a bit, even though I don't know half of what he knows.

Kennedy was haunted by the Bay of Pigs invasion but carried the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis. He later increased the number of U.S. military advisers to South Vietnam to more than 16,000.

We're eyeball to eyeball...and I think the other fellow just blinked.

Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one.

I'm learning Cuban. It's like Spanish, but with fewer words for luxury items.

Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman ... or a bad woman.

I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.

A good Cuban cigar closes the doors to the vulgarities of the world.

I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!

Cigars must be smoked one at a time, peaceably, with all the leisure in the world. Cigarettes are of the instant, Cigars are for eternity.

U.S. leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.

You can't get good Chinese takeout in China and Cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That's all you need to know about communism.

It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.

I might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American.

Since the Cuban Revolution and since the invasion of Santo Domingo a state of emergency has existed in Latin America. The Marines shoot at anything that moves, regardless of partyaffiliation.

What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people. It's a failure of Fidel Castro and the Communists.

I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke every last one of 'em.

It is no coincidence that when the thugs tried to wrest control over Grenada, there were 30 Soviet advisors and hundreds of Cuban military and paramilitary forces on the island.

The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.

I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.

I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way.

The miracle of Grenada is how quickly the Cuban workers beat their plowshares into Soviet AK-47s.

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.

This is sort of the Cuban Missile Crisis on steroids, what we are doing to Russia right now, and I don't think this is a good idea.

Ibrahim tells his story without a grain of complaint, and this was true for all of the band members. This is very much part of the Cuban spirit and soul.

Well, guess what, I’m Cuban! And no self-respecting Cuban man of the era would let his wife work.

The Cuban economy is a disaster. No, I do not praise Fidel Castro.

Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models.

I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy.

The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit.

The fact that that's the difference between Mexicans and Cubans is pronounced. It's so immediately recognizable, the way a Cuban speaks, the way a Cuban moves the hands.

I'm crafting a vision of my life that involves creativity. And Cuban society allows me to do this. I know it's harder in the U.S. where so many people are just grateful to have a job.

I think that one of the great things that the Cuban revolution has done is preserve history.

I smoke really good cigars, I don't smoke Cuban cigars. I would never do anything as Un-American as smoke a decent cigar.

How do you say 'delicious' in Cuban?

Cuban public is special - they participate, generate a lot of energy, both in a positive and negative sense. It's always an expressive audience.

I wanted to leave high school in 1958 and join the Cuban revolution. So the only reason I did not come to join [Fidel] Castro was because my mother would not let me. I was only 16.

A rather honored guest of the Cuban government, so I wouldn't experience the problems. I think it would take a black Cuban to really articulate this because I'm being treated in a very generous way.

We have denounced in all assemblies, in all places where we have had the opportunity to speak, the illegality of flights and the fact that there is a base against the will of the Cuban people.

I loved sitting on my veranda sipping quality scotch, puffing a Cuban cigar and watching Cuba on the horizon, or the oceanic vista. Did this late in the evenings many times.

Cubans are frantic when it comes to appreciating music.

The Cuban-born Mario Algaze has a Chambian way of collapsing present and past.

I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.

[Cuban coffee is] very powerful, very sweet, and a little dangerous - just like the people who drink it.

A Hoyo de Monterrey double corona is my favourite Cuban since Desi Arnaz.

We do not have elections. But the great majority of the Cuban people supports its government.